MA, Have you looked into 'Companion Gardening'?
There are plants that protect other plants from their predators. They will get the job done naturally. Check out Findhorn Garden in Northern Scotland whose community wrote a book about their successes which the esteemed British Horological Staff had said was impossible to grow in their North Ocean coastal environmental conditions. Other groups have followed with their own advise about companion gardening - probably in a region close to your environmental challenges. Christine From: marmar...@aol.com Reply-To: silver-list@eskimo.com Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 19:53:20 EDT To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: Re: CS>Germs, plagues and Nostradamus Resent-From: silver-list@eskimo.com Resent-Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 16:53:31 -0700 In a message dated 5/3/04 11:47:18 AM Central Daylight Time, hollandsi...@charter.net writes: If the borer beetles are coming up from debree and or the soil---yes,tanglefoot would stop them.If the beetles are flying in then---No. Hmmmm -- I don't know where the heck they're coming from. All I know is that for the past 18 years, every damn tree that I plant dies from borers attacking it. And I feed them well, water them in drought and spray for borers the way the nursery tells me to. I've got two young Kwanzan Cherries dying in the front yard right now. They replaced two Dogwoods. Which replaced two Dogwoods. Ad infinitum. Borers have also badly damaged two young Maple trees, and my cherry (producing) tree. I'm SO disgusted. This year I tried Diamataceous Earth for the first time. Don't know if it's working or not. Unfortunately, I find out if the product is (not) working by the tree dying the following year. :-( Thanks for the info. MA
